Game apparatus



W. L. WHITE.

GAME APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED. MAY 24. 1919.

1,381,045. Patented June 7,1921.

entree sra'rss WILFORD L. WHITE, OF BOULDER, COLORADO.

GAME APPARATUS.

Application filed May 24,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lvinronn L. Vrrrrn, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Boulder, in the county of Boulder and State of Colorado, have invented new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a game comprising a plurality of pins and a swingingly supported ball which may be made to impact with the pins, the purpose being, in playing the game, to knock down as many pins as possible with one throw of theball. To this end, the invention comprises a case having a hingedly mounted cover and platform disposed beneath the cover. Pins of the character of the ten pins being mounted upon the plat form and having flexible members attached thereto and united at their one end so that when the pins are once knocked down they may all be set up by one operation. The support for the ball is carried at the side of the case and constitutes a member having a plurality of telescoping sections and an arm carried by the uppermost section for supporting the ball by means of a flexible element.

The invention is illustrated and described in a specific embodiment, to which, however, it is not to be restricted. The right is reserved to make such changes or alterations as the actual reduction to practice may suggest, in so far as such changes or altera tions are compatible in spirit with the annexed claim.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure l is a perspective view of the improved apparatus in closed position.

Fig. 2 is a side elevational view of the apparatus set up for use.

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. a is a section on the line 441 of Fig. 5 is a section on the line 55 of formed with a top platform 2. The pins 3 are carried on top of this platform 2 in which there are formed a plurality of perforations at arranged just as the pin should Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 7, 1921. 1919. Serial No. 299,438.'

be arranged when in set up position. Above each perforation a pin 3 sits,and each pin has connected to it a cord or other flexible member 5, the cord passing through the attendant perforation 4. All the cords 5 from the several pins are then passed through a hole 6 formed in one side of the case and are united with a handle 7. It will thus be observed that the pins may be knocked down and having been knocked down may be readily set up by pulling on the handle 7, this operation drawing all the cords 5 taut with the result that the pins are brought to upstanding positions. The handle when not in use may be frictionally engaged in the hole 6, thus leaving the cords slack, so that the pins may fall readily when hit by the impact element later described.

Mounted on a side of the case 2 other than that in which the hole 6 is formed, there is a horizontally disposed post 8 formed with i tended position with reference to said sec-.

tion by means of a similar set screw 14:.

Carried at the upper end of the top section there is a horizontally disposed arm 15 formed at one end with an appropriate clamping element 16 by which it may be secured to the top section 13 and this arm at its free end has attached thereto one end of a cord or other flexible member 17, the

cord at its lower end being secured to and i supportingthe ball 18. It is obvious that the bal may be swung on the cord and caused to impact with the pins 3 knocking them down, the number of pins knocked down at one oscillation depending upon the skill of the person causing the ball to swing.

When not in use the ins are desi ned to lie down upon the plat orm 2 and t e support comprising the sections 9, l1 and 13 may be disengaged from the pole and the several sections telescoped by releasing the set screws 12 and 1 1, the arm being removed from the upper section by releasing the clamping element 15. The support, the arm,

the pole and the string may then be placed on the platform 2, When the hole may be operating members mounted on the cover.

The invention having been described, What is claimed as new and useful is:

A game apparatus comprising a hollow element the top of which constitutes a plat form, a plurality of objects mounted on the platform so that they maybe knocked down from upstanding positions, an upstanding support disposed at the side of the platform,

a ball, a flexible member supporting the ball above the obj ects'and above the center of the platform, a handle frictionally engageable in so as to be disengageable from a hole formed in the side of the hollow element, and a plurality of cords connecting one end to the handle and the remaining ends one each to one'of the objects through holes formed in the platform, whereby the objects may be brought to upstanding positions after having been knocked down, the handle being engaged in the hole except When operating to raise sa d ob ects. p

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

WIL'FORD L. WHITE. 

